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Author | : Greig Grey |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781518896132 |
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This book was previously published as "Oil Field Trash And Other Garbage." It was meant on my part to take a tongue in cheek swipe at the novel. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I would beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage." It was brought to my attention that many of the men who are in the fraternity of Oil Field Trash-which I'm also a proud member-thought I was referring to them as garbage. Which was not my intent by any means. It's a tough club to join and few men earn the badge of Oil Field Trash. When I broke out in the big boom of 1981 it was a revolving door of weevils. Maybe one guy in twenty lasted long enough to collect a full paycheck. One tool-pusher suggested installing nets to cover the derricks. "Keep them birds from thieving our worms." But I totally understand the confusion and would never throw a brother under the bus or a rig up tandem for that matter. I added two stories to the book, to liven it up a bit at the start; stories of theft, deception, sabotage, and a rig move gone wild. The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck-spanning my eight year career in the industry. First person accounts of breaking out as a weevil and literally working my way up the ladder. The stories chronicle the dry holes, the wild wells, and wilder nights, as well as the profound dangers of the trade. The industry has evolved but oil drilling is still by far the most dangerous dollar in the world. Roughnecks are the front lines of the world's energy industry--soldiers of fortune, hiring on for a hard earned, high risk paycheck. As you are reading this one roughneck will die every five days on average--lives summed up by six lines in their hometown newspaper. Something to ponder the next time you fill up your tank or adjust your thermostat. Unlike oil, men are a renewable resource."
Author | : Greig Grey |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2014-01-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494827090 |
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"A wild ride and a beautiful read!" "This collection of writing on work in the oil fields is like nothing you've read yet! The writer is a master of narrative. He takes you not only into the culture and time and place of these oil field years and workers, but into the psyches of the characters as well as the physical and emotional world they inhabit. You won't put it down while you're reading it, and you won't forget it when you're done!" Laura Kasischke-award winning author of seventeen books. "Blowouts are mere complications for investors. Wry grins are concealed as heads are bowed in a moment of remembrance for the dead. A jackpot waits after Red Adair cleans up the mess." I worked on oil drilling rigs for eight years, starting out in the boom year of 1981. 4,500 rigs were boring for gas and oil nationwide and experienced hands were scarce. Training programs were nonexistent and safety meetings were nothing more than a once a week, ten-minute break to gulp down a few bologna sandwiches. If you made it a month without a lost time injury, you were rewarded with a dozen pairs of gloves. My life is boring now, but far from it during the black gold rush back then. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I'd beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage." The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck, performing the duties of this obscure profession. The stories chronicle the dry holes, the wild wells, and the wilder nights, as well as the profound dangers of the trade. The industry has evolved but oil drilling is still by far the most dangerous dollar in the world. Roughnecks are the front lines of the world's energy industry-soldiers of fortune, hiring on for a hard earned, high risk paycheck. As you are reading this one roughneck will die every five days on average-lives summed up by six lines in their hometown newspaper. Something to ponder the next time you fill up your tank or adjust your thermostat. Unlike oil, men are a renewable resource. So, here they are: first person accounts of drilling for oil and gas in the Michigan basin, as journalists and geologists refer to it. Roughnecks just call it the patch.
Author | : Mody Coggin Boatright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Petroleum industry and trade |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gerald Lynch |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0292786344 |
Download Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did—for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider’s view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.
Author | : Thomas A. Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Oil fields |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Loren G Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
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ISBN | : 9781076515827 |
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Storyteller Loren G. Kelly recounts a poetic historical epic of his wildcatter grandfather, roughneck father and nomad-like oil field Irish Kelly ancestors, traveling to oil boom towns, exploring for black gold and drilling oil well gushers in the oil fields of America's early twentieth century. The author depicts growing up in the oil refinery town of Phillips, Texas, on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, where a monstrous refinery belched fire from explosions, spewed clouds of pollution and vented poisonous gas over the roofs of oil families' company houses. Loren paints an extraordinary picture of community in the oil patch and within Phillips, Texas, now a ghost town, remaining only in the memories of its former residents, who can never go home. Includes vintage oil field photos and a rare Amelia Earhart photograph.
Author | : Estha Briscoe Stowe |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780875650333 |
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Tells of the lives of early-day oil field families in Texas boomtowns.
Author | : James Conwell Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Petroleum |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Russell W. Cumley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258038472 |
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Author | : William Murchison, Sr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-02-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780991637133 |
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